金红石TiO_2本征缺陷磁性的第一性原理计算  

A first-principles study on magnetic properties of the intrinsic defects in rutile TiO_2

作　　者：林俏露[1] 李公平[1] 许楠楠[1] 刘欢[1] 王苍龙[2] Lin Qiao-Lu Li Gong-Ping Xu Nan-Nan Liu Huan Wang Cang-Long(School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China)

机构地区：[1]兰州大学核科学与技术学院,兰州730000 [2]中国科学院近代物理研究所,兰州730000

出　　处：《物理学报》2017年第3期302-315,共14页Acta Physica Sinica

基　　金：国家自然科学基金(批准号:11575074;11304324);山东大学晶体材料国家重点实验室开放基金(批准号:KF1311)资助的课题~~

摘　　要：基于密度泛函理论的平面波超软赝势方法模拟计算了金红石相TiO_2的四种本征缺陷(氧空位、钛空位、钛间隙缺陷、氧间隙缺陷)和两种复合缺陷(氧空位与氧间隙复合缺陷、钛空位与钛间隙复合缺陷)的铁磁特性.结合态密度、电子分布及晶体结构变化分析可知,四种本征缺陷均会在系统内引入缺陷态.氧空位、钛间隙缺陷使费米面升高,引起自旋极化,引入磁矩分别为1.62μB与3.91μB;钛空位的缺陷态处于价带顶,使费米面进入价带,表现出明显的p型半导体特性,引入磁矩约为2.47μB;氧间隙缺陷引入缺陷态但仍然处于自旋对称状态,费米面略微下降;氧空位与氧间隙复合缺陷使费米面上升的程度比单个氧空位时大,模拟的超晶胞保持了氧空位的铁磁特性,大小为1.63μB;钛空位与钛间隙复合缺陷以反铁磁方式耦合,但超晶胞仍具有一定的铁磁特性.The TiO_2 based diluted magnetic semiconductors（DMSs） have aroused the considerable interest as one of the promising candidates for the spintronic devices accommodating both charge and spin of electrons in a single substance.Unfortunately, however, throughout most of the published papers, the question how to clearly elucidate the role of defects which may be played in the experimentally observed room temperature ferromagnetism（RTFM） remains open,especially after a new concept of d^0 ferromagnetism. In such a case, to further understand this issue and also to explore the origin of the RTFM in rutile TiO_2, we here first perform a first principles calculation on the magnetic properties of the intrinsic defects, namely oxygen vacancy（V_O）, Ti vacancy（V_（Ti））, Ti interstitial（Ti_（in））, oxygen interstitial（O_（in））and two complex defects of V_O＋ O_（in） and V_（Ti）＋Ti_（in）. Combining the density functional theory and the Perdew-BurkeErnzerhof functional of the generalized gradient approximation, we calculate various model structures of rutile TiO_2 constituted by 48-atom 2 × 2 × 2 supercell. The cutoff energies in these calculations of the planewave basis are all set to be 340 eV and the Monkhorst-Pack scheme k points are set to be 3 × 3 × 4 for an irreducible Brillouin zone. The convergence threshold for self-consistent field iteration is 0.1455 × 10^（-6） eV /atom. Structural relaxation is taken into account in each of all calculations. It is found that each defect we created in the structure leads to a lattice expansion and that the positive value for spin up and the negative value for spin down of the density of states（DOS） of the structure without defect are symmetric, suggesting that the perfect rutile TiO_2 lattice is nonferromagnetic. For the system with one V_O, the total energy of the spin-polarized system is 200 meV lower than that of the non-spin-polarized system,which indicates ferromagnetic behavior in this system. The defect brings in an impur

关 键 词：第一性原理 本征缺陷 态密度 自旋磁矩 

分 类 号：O469[理学—凝聚态物理]